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Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (Paperback)
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Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial (Paperback)

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Published: 30/05/2002
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In April 2000 a High Court judge branded the writer David Irving a racist, an antisemite, a Holocaust denier, and a falsifier of history. The key expert witness against Irving was the Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans who describes here, in a book which several publishers have been intimidated to withdrawing, his involvement in the case. Recounting his discovery of Irving's connections with far right Holocaust deniers in the United States and of how Irving falsified the documentary evidence on the Second World War, Evans reflects generally and eloquently on the interaction of historical and legal rules of evidence.
Evans argues that the Irving trial does for the twenty-first century what the Eichmann trial did for the second half of the twentieth. It vindicates history's ability to come to reasoned conclusions on the basis of a careful examination of the evidence, even when eyewitnesses and survivors are no longer around to tell the tale.

Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 9781859844175
Number of pages: 400
Weight: 502 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

An astonishing brief of the historical profession against a fallen practitioner. Evans exhibits a vivid intelligence, clear writing and a bright animating rage. - Mark Grief, Times Literary Supplement

Evans is a flat, dull, boring, venal, corrupt conformist who willingly sold his soul to the Devil. - David Irving

The evidence marshalled by Evans against Irving is devastating. - Ian Buruma, The New Yorker

The tingle of intellectual discovery runs through Evans' methodical demolition of Irving's work ... A classic example of historical research as detective story. - Charles Taylor, Salon.com

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By chance I met the author of this book on a cruise up the Rhine - his wife told me about it and, on the strength of what she told me I bought it. I was not disappointed, the book systematically demolished the claims... More

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